Poetic Obituaries: [Charlotte] Kohler, who was known to recite

Greek poetry and then provide the translation, was the first American editor to publish South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who later earned the Nobel Prize in literature.

She didn't shy away from controversial figures, featuring drawings in 1945 by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, who was affiliated with the Communist Party, and in 1958 published Ezra Pound, an American poet who was arrested for treason after World War II.

from Times-Dispatch: Charlotte Kohler dies; had edited literary magazine

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